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Mbuyiseni Mgaga, a 36-year old man was found guilty for murder and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at Johannesburg District Court.

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15 years in jail for taxi driver

Hit-and-run driver arrested

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buyiseni Mgaga, a 36-year old man was found guilty for murder and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at Johannesburg District Court.

It is alleged that the above mentioned, who is also a taxi driver, shot and killed Mhlonipheni Dlamini at corner Commissioner and Von Weilligh Street on the 29th of November 2016 at approximately 23:30hrs. At the time of the incident, the victim was a passenger in the taxi and had an argument with the accused taxi driver. He went out of the taxi and the taxi driver shot him once in the upper body with a licensed firearm. Paramedics certified him dead on the scene.

The taxi driver later on handed himself over to the police at Johannesburg Central Police Station the following day.

An alleged hit and run incident on Jeppe and Von wielligh street in JHB CBD Staff Writer news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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SAFETY TIPS FOR MOTORISTS • When parking your vehicle; ensure that your doors are locked by checking them with your hands; • Use your central lock while standing close to your vehicle; • When driving around the CBD, ensure that your windows are slightly opened or closed; • Always be on alert when approaching intersection and the red robots; most of the suspects are roaming around those places; • Your doors must be locked at all times; • Ensure that your valuables; e.g. hand bags, wallet, laptops, Ipads are placed at the boot of your car; • Never display your valuables on the car seat.

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n a horrific incident that happened recently in Joburg CBD and somehow left many tongues wagging, a man was caught on camera driving into a pedestrian before speeding off in the Johannesburg city centre. A sigh of relief to many social media users came as the suspect in the recorded media has been arrested and charged with attempted murder.

The video clip‚ a copy of which was posted on the Intelligence Bureau SA Facebook page‚ shows a man crossing a road and then seemingly hesitating before an oncoming white car. The vehicle suddenly swerves to the right and strikes the man‚ drags him across two lanes and then speeds off without stopping after narrowly missing other pedestrians.

Some facebook users took their

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views to the platform after seeing the video. “I’ve been tempted to do the same on a number of occasions, people don’t want to stop and cross when they suppose to, especially if they see your a female. Bump the bloody person and go report yourself. Haisuka (sic),” said one user.

Another user attributed the chaos to city father’s, “the driver seems to be going for the pedestrians. I thought the DA was doing so much, one thing they have forgotten is JMPD on the streets stopping jay walking etc (sic). If you are going to get a fine or something then it will stop a lot of it. For the DA supporters that will jump down my throat, doing this is common sense and has very little to do with the budget that the ANC apparently screwed up, its just moving some officers from stop streets to the town center (sic).”

Tadewos Soamno (41), appeared

briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday after the video was shared on social media showing a vehicle driving into a pedestrian who was crossing the street. Soamno will be back in court on September 26.

A source revealed that Soammo knew the victim - both men share retail space selling shoes at a shop on the corner of Jeppe and Von Wielligh streets.

The horrific video of the incident was captured in the Johannesburg CBD and went viral on social media.

Johannesburg Emergency Management Services spokesperson Nana Radebe confirmed that a man had been hit by a car in a hit-andrun incident that had occurred at around 5.20 pm on Thursday afternoon near the intersection of Von Wielligh and Jeppe streets in downtown Johannesburg.

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Cellphone ‘thief’ burnt

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suspected cellphone thief was burnt alive and taken to an unknown hospital in an ambulance last week on Saturday in Berea.

‘The incident happened close to the Roman Catholic Church,’ eye witnesses told the Inner City Gazette.

According to a witness, two men, are alleged to have stolen a cellphone from a lady who was on her way to work, when the woman screamed for help the alleged cellphone grabbers were chased down the street by dozens of enraged residents of a nearby building, who then assaulted the suspect and “necklaced” him by placing grass and papers around this neck and setting him ablaze, the witnesses told the Inner City Gazette.

“We have just burnt the robber as an example,” one of the residents who participated in accosting the suspect told the Inner City Gazette. “These thieves must stop, Police must do their work and those buying stolen phones, we are coming for them.”

The resident, who spoke to the editor

of Inner City Gazette on condition of anonymity, said the cellphone robberies had become increasingly common around Hillbrow and surrounding areas and lately brazen residents who have little protection against crime.

However, Hillbrow Station Commander Brigadier Stanley Nevhuhulwi, did not share the residents satisfaction with the burning particularly that it was never reported to Hillbrow police station, but none the less by the time of going to print, the police had deployed members of his team to check the hospitals in the area to identify the burn victim.

“We condemn these acts of vigilante justice - what happened in the video. I urge community members to work with the police to deal with the Scourge of crime, my office is open to community members,” said Nevhuhulwi.

The Inner City Gazette is in possession of a second video in circulation of another suspect being burnt in Hillbrow.

The Hillbrow station commander can be reached on: 081 854 5394

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“...those buying stolen phones, we are coming for them.” - irrate Residents An unfortunate cellphone thief is met with instant justice as residents stone and burn him.

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To become a bookkeeper, you can enroll for ICB qualifications at any of Boston City Campus & Business College’s campuses nationwide

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uan Venter, registrar of Boston City Campus & Business College points out that bookkeeping is one of the top 10 priority scarce skills according to Fasset (the Finance, Accounting and Related Services seta).

“This means that there are jobs out there for good, qualified bookkeepers,” says Venter. “In a Sector Skills Plan Update, Fasset states that bookkeeper vacancies exist because applicants generally lack the skills, formal qualification and experience that employers require.

It follows that those who invest in accredited bookkeeping courses are likely to find excellent work positions that offer good pay and good career prospects.”

How do you become a qualified bookkeeper?

You can enroll for ICB qualifications at any of Boston City Campus & Business College’s campuses nationwide.

As an accredited training provider, Boston offers ICB National Diplomas (Certified Financial Accountant, Certified Technical Financial Accountant and Technical Public Accountant) as well as National Certificates (Public Accounts Administrator and Certified Junior Bookkeeper) and Further Education & Training Certificate in Bookkeeping (Certified Senior Bookkeeper).

The wonderful thing about ICB bookkeeping courses is that they can be done full-time or part-

time and offer flexibility. Studying full time at a college is a popular option with most school leavers.

People that work but wish to improve their prospects and earning capacity usually enrol for part time studies.

They find that attending classes after hours is a workable option to up-skill and get qualified.

Venter believes that bookkeeping is an excellent option for people of all ages and backgrounds. “You can enter the bookkeeping field on different levels,” he explains.

“Whether you come straight out of school or whether you come from a work environment that is totally unrelated to bookkeeping, it doesn’t matter. A training advisor will advise the best starting point for you.”

He cites the example of Stanley Grootboom. In April 2012, Grootboom made a brave decision - he resigned from his job to register at Boston Business College Port Elizabeth for the ICB Certified Technical Financial Accounting National Diploma.

Usually this is a two-year qualification. But Stanley calculated the cost of being unemployed - knowing that the sooner he got back to employment, the better - and completed his course within a year.

Besides doing it in less time, he

also achieved great results in his studies, averaging 88% overall!Grootboom was awarded the Best Student Award at the graduation ceremony of Boston City Campus & Business College Port Elizabeth.

What kind of person should a successful bookkeeper be?

• Beorganised. Bookkeeping is a job that involves repetitive and routine tasks, and a need to work to a deadline. You need good time management skills, and to be able to prioritise your tasks.

• Possess good communication skills. You’ll be expected to discuss the finances with the owner/manager of the business.

They will need information from you including basic financial reports, Profit and Loss and Balance Sheets, and financial updates with regard to cash flow.

For example, you may need to manage the credit and debtors control for the business, all outstanding customer invoices and then politely contact those customers to collect the debts.

• Have an enquiring mind.

Bookkeepers must investigate why certain costs are higher than expected within accounts.

• Have appropriate qualifications.

• Be fully computer literate and

up to date. Working knowledge of accessing bank data via the Internet and using spreadsheets to prepare cash flows for the business.

• Be comfortable with the software and accounting packages that the firms are using.

• Absolute integrity and trustworthiness. You will see a lot of private and confidential information that should not be shared with anyone.

• Happy to work with numbers as well as people!

• Prepared to update skills. Egcurrent financial regulations, as well as staying up to date with the industry that you’re working within.

“Remember -you can start with an entry-level course and climb up to more advanced qualifications when it suits you and your budget,” Venter adds.

“It’s a workable solution - affordable studies, flexible study-time, entrance requirements that are dependent on your course of choice, opportunity to advance, and excellent prospects in terms of career and income. Studying bookkeeping certainly has lots going for it.”

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I am a member of ANC, but no doubt I am fully behind Mayor Mashaba, because he is rooting out corruption. #Hands of Mashaba. A removal of Mashaba, is an injury to majority of inner city residents. No more corruption in Jozi, it’s not the Gupta hub.

Mary - Hillbrow Public drinking is becoming normal, this week I saw many groups in different streets with cooler boxes and camp chairs others using their cars, bottle stores and drinking places are on the increase and this promotes crime, some of these places are just a few metres apart, we need to come together as communities and demand closure of some of these drinking places.

The SAPS & JMPD just drive past on Banket next to BG Alexander & Nugget street opposite Catholic Cathedral. It’s the norm for years, nothing will change now.

Sonto - Berea Thanks to Cllr Mzwandile Tyobeka of ward 123 for working on our water crisis last week.

The ward Whattsapp group has made a big difference to the respose times with CoJ. Viva and high five to our councillor!!

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2017 Visual Arts Symposium

By Moses Moyo mosesmoyo@icloud.com

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lack Mark Collective in partnership with Market Photo Workshop hosted the second edition of the biannual Visual Arts Symposium (VAS), during the Market Theatre Foundation Culture in Another South Africa 30 years commemoration week, the commemoration ended on a high on Sunday with compelling commitments towards the need for solidifying of the artistic practice in all its modes across the ‘Pan African’ spaces and platforms!

The Symposium looked into the present and future of visual art practice in Africa. In opening the symposium Head of The Market Photo Workshop, Lekgetho Makola gave the keynote address with Lidudumalingani Mqombothi as the respondent, Mqombothi, is an author, photographer and filmmaker.

Black Mark Collective initiated VAS in 2015 in an effort to create a discursive space for critical engagement around the work of black visual arts creative practitioners.

Focusing on the theme ‘Urgency And Agency-Strategies And Contingencies’, this year’s symposium seeks to explore art practices and discourses that resonate with the ever-changing conditions of creative production and practice.

The symposium thus interrogated a number of propositions including: artistic practices that are traversing across the traditional categories between those that have been initiated through the gallery system and those who that have inhabited other creative spaces.

The authorial voice of the mandarins of culture has ostensibly been curtailed. Corollary developments include an increase and greater visi-

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Lekgetho Makola and Dr Same Mdluli Pic ©Dumisani Malindi

bility of art collectives and collaborations, art in the public sphere both temporary installations and performances, as well as virtually oriented art all of which are pointing towards the emergence of new missions and responses to the now.

The symposium raised a number of pertinent questions that included interrogating how practices alter the established lines of proportioning value?

Pic ©Siphosihle Mkhwanazi

How do these have an impact on institutional culture, systems and policies? How do they operate in relation to capital and funding? what are the long-term implications for archiving and historicising Black cultural production?

Talking to the Inner City Gazette on the sidelines of the symposium Dr Same Mdluli said opportunities for more such platforms for photography intellectual engagements are on the cards. The symposium was free and open to the public with no prior registration required.

Participants follow proceedings at the second edition of the biannual Visual Arts Symposium.

Pic ©Siphosihle Mkhwanazi

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City takes firm action against individuals trashing CBD “Being unable to clean the compiling waste has serious health implications to residents, and having to make use of additional resources and cleaning shifts is costing the City R50 000 of taxpayer’s money per day.”

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n the 20th September 2017, officials from Pikitup, together with members from the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD), laid criminal charges against individuals involved with trashing the City, at the Hillbrow Police Station. MMC Sun has also sent a letter to SAPS Gauteng Provincial Commissioner, Lt. Gen. Deliwe De Lange, expressing the City’s concern and requesting for SAPS’ urgent intervention.

In recent weeks, we have seen our inner city being targeted through a criminal campaign whereby former Jozi@Work employees, of which some are believed to be linked to the Joburg Social Movement, have been trashing our city, and intimidating and physically attacking Pikitup staff.

Through their guerrilla warfare styled attack, they have turned over refuse bins, scattered trash in areas where

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Pikitup staff has previously cleaned, intimidated staff, forced staff out of waste removal trucks at gun point, and used our trucks to further load off waste which have been collected. A female Pikitup staff member were assaulted when she tried to stop the culprits from trashing the streets where she has just cleaned.

Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba has made it clear that cowardly and criminal behaviour will not be tolerated, and as the Members of the Mayoral Committees for both Environmental affairs as well as Public Safety, we cannot stand idly by and have services disrupted, and staff victimised, so that a few criminal elements can gain from a politically motivated campaign.

MMC for Public Safety, Councillor Michael Sun says: “We will not sit back and watch those thugs trash our City. Video footage and photos of the culprits have been handed

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MMC Cllr De Jager

over the SAPS for investigations, and our JMPD will set up a dedicated task team to assist the police with criminal investigations and will affect arrests.”

According to MMC for Environment, Infrastructure and Service Delivery (EISD), Councillor Nico De Jager, the City spends millions of rand to keep the city clean, and any re-cleaning after the trashing will be at an additional expense: “Being unable to clean the compiling waste has serious health implications to residents, and having to make use of additional resources and cleaning shifts is costing the City R50 000 of taxpayer’s money per day.”

“We are also aware that some of the culprits are planning to disrupt the City’s A Re Sebetseng cleaning campaign. We will not allow for this politically motivated, and completely unlawful, campaign to disrupt services. Pikitup staff will con-

tinue to exercise their mandate by cleaning the streets of Johannesburg, and we will ensure that any individual who seeks to intimidate our employees, or further disrupt services, are apprehended and criminally charged,” MMC De Jager said.

We have stated time and again, that in May this year, the threemonth Pikitup contracts signed by former Jozi@Work beneficiaries through the City’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), expired.

We wish to reiterate that the we have been clear about the temporary and rotational nature of the contracts and have at no point stated or implied that anyone would be entitled to an extention, or that the three-month contracts would result in full-time employment.

The Jozi@Work programme was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, benefitting only the middlemen who were awarded multimillion-rand contracts to run projects.

Through the City of Johannes-

burg’s new approach to temporary work opportunities, residents will be given work opportunities directly through the City, and not through middlemen, thereby increasing the number of people who can fairly benefit from these work opportunities.

The additional R49,2 million which hass been allocated to Pikitup through the adjustment budget in a bid to clean up our City, is wasted, if we are to use these funds to clean up after criminals.

This means that our residents in the inner city, and informal settlements, are being robbed of the services they are entitled to.

We will not be deterred from delivering on our mandate to keep the streets of Johannesburg clean.

We are working closely with the JMPD and the Yeoville, Hillbrow and Central South African Police Service (SAPS), to ensure that our employees can work in safety, and that perpetrators are held to account.

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AFHCO Health and Wellness Day

Africa Housing Company (AFHCO) held a successful health and wellness Day on the 15th of September at End Street Park, in Johannesburg Inner-City. Staff members, family and friends came along in support of the event. Some of the activities included, aerobics and body building training, self defence training classes, SAPS safety awareness, soccer, free HIV testing and general health information.

Pictures: Inner City Gazette

Warrant officer Mampa from SAPS, gave the SAPS Safety awareness talk and took some time to join the aerobics session.

AFHCO staff take time for selfies

Self defence class: AFHCO tenants and staff members follow activities.

Self defence demonstrations by Bad Boyz Security

#Mkhabamustfall : participants take part in the aerobics session by the GYM company.

Gauteng Health also came to promote good health.

Right to Care members provide Free HIV Testing services.

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City to empower urban farmers Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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he City of Johannesburg has partnered with United Way South Africa (UWSA) to assist emerging farmers across all regions graduate from subsistence to semicommercial farming.

UWSA is a non-profit organisation that connects sectors of society to long term social change.

The partnership will see about 300 farmers acquiring skills which will enable them to access markets, including the value chain of agro processing.

Speaking during the signing of the partnership, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Health and Social Development Cllr Mpho Phalatse (insert) welcomed the partnership and said it would make a positive impact on the lives of emerging farmers across the city.

MMC Phalatse said it was important to partner with organisations that are “in it for a long haul” and transfer the skills to those who were previously marginalised.

“Food security and sustainable businesses are key elements in our drive to empower emerging famers.

“We hope that this partnership will further improve the lives of our people,” said the MMC. Since 2013, the City has developed 2 000 hectares for large farms and 27 000 communal gardens across the city’s seven regions through the Food Resilience Programme spearheaded by the Department of Social Development.

The establishment of a large Empowerment

The City of Joburg has developed 2 000 hectares for large farms and 27 000 communal gardens across the city’s seven regions.

Zone at Eikenhoff created a platform for 32 cooperatives established by food insecure families to become farmers. The cooperatives have been able to produce and sell their veg-

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etable and chickens to formal and informal markets across the city.

These farmers are involved in crop, poultry and piggery production. The success and pro-

gress in the farm has attracted partners such as City Parks and Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Department to invest R6 million and R5 million respectively.

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Pharmacy awareness month focuses on vaccination Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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he City of Johannesburg is using this year’s National Pharmacy Awareness Month to ensure that all children keep to their immunisation schedules, which is in line with the Expanded Programme on Immunisation.

“For the first time this year, the annual Pharmacy Health Promotion will be allocated the entire month of September. It used to be a week campaign to promote and celebrate the health care services rendered by all healthcare professionals,” says Sipho Tsamaesi, Deputy Director for Pharmacy in the City of Johannesburg Health Department.

Pharmacy Awareness Month is supported by the National Department of Health, the South African Pharmacy Council and Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa.

The theme for this year’s National Pharmacy Awareness Month is: “Don’t wait – vaccinate”. Under the standing theme “Towards Quality Care Together”, pharmacists will be urged to help educate communities about the importance of vaccination.

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immunity to certain diseases, and can protect themselves, their families and communities from these diseases.

“We will be visiting patients at old age homes and retirement villages to assist them with proper use of their chronic illness medications,” adds Tsamaesi.

“Our Health Promoters will do short talks at clinics, ensuring that the important message around immunisation is shared with the entire community. It’s only through the empowerment of our staff and patients, through continuous health education on the use of medication, alternative treatments and prevention, that we’re able to make a difference,” he says.

The immunisation programme with provide the original scheduled vaccines, especially bacillus calmetteguerin (BCG), oral polio and measles.

“Through research and development and new vaccines being developed, we have additions such as pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevenar) for prevention of pneumonia and middle ear infection, rotavirus vaccine that helps to protect children against diarrhoea and vomiting caused by rotavirus infection,” says Tsamaesi.

Book fair gets Jozi reading Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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he Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, Johannesburg, was buzzing with schoolchildren, writers, publishers as well as distributors from all over South Africa during the second edition of SA Book Fair (SABF).

The re-designed fair, held under the auspices of the South African Book Development Council, took place from 8 – 10 September 2017. It has now been incorporated into the successful annual National Book Week.

According to Vuyisile Mshudulu, Arts, Culture and Heritage Director in the City of Johannesburg, the fair provides a strong platform for the book industry.

The National Book Week and fair share the following broad objectives: • Promoting a reading culture and increasing access to books; • Forging and promoting partnerships across the industry both locally and on the continent; • Showcasing books, authors and the book industry in general; • SMME and entrepreneurial development; • Enterprise and skills development across the value chain; and

• A lively, captivating literary festival based in Gauteng every September.

“Hosting events of this magnitude in the heart of the city will go a long way in achieving Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba’ s 10-point plan, one of which is achieving a 5% economic growth rate.

“This presents young and upcoming writers and publishers with an opportunity to showcase their work. We have tried to balance this exhibition by including visual arts and invited school children to encourage them to read more,” said Mshudulu.

He said staging the fair at its current venue was central to revitalising the city and rebranding Newtown as cultural precinct.

“For us it is exciting if we have more and more events coming to Newtown so that we can get that cultural vibe and the prestige position that Newtown once held in the cultural arena internationally. It also important that this event is hosted in one of our major cultural institutions, Museum Africa,” said Mshudulu.

The fair, according to Mshudulu, creates a platform where the production side and publishing of the book sector can interact with the distribution side and form sustainable economic relationships that can have a mutually beneficial relationship between the two sides of the value chain.

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group of just over 180 proud residents took to the streets of Joburg on Sunday, 17 September 2017 as part of a ‘Joburg City Clean-Up’ in the prelude to the 2nd annual FNB Joburg 10K CITYRUN. “We were overwhelmed by the support that the ‘Joburg City Clean-Up’ received today,” says Blake Dyason, ‘Joburg City Clean-Up’ pioneer.

“Our cities have so much history and opportunity. We’re proud to team up with the FNB Joburg 10K CITYRUN on what was our first Joburg clean-up. Through sports, arts and culture we are able to entice residents to the inner city both to enjoy its rich

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Members of the Joburg Community helping to keep the streets of Joburg clean. heritage and drive business. In order to do this, we need to keep our cities clean and safe.”

“The ‘Clean Up’ started and finished at Newtown Park, which is 500m away from the Mary Fitzgerald Square, the finish venue of the FNB Joburg 10K CITYRUN,” continues Dyason. “Volunteers were given gloves and bags before being let loose to walk the streets, have fun and explore their city. Our partner Waste Plan, an on-site waste management company, collected the litter.

Our other partners, PETCO (South Africa’s national industry body accountable for managing the PET plastic industry’s Extended Producer Responsibility) and Extrupet (the largest and most advanced recycler of PET bottle materials on the African continent) not only provided the bags and gloves, but committed to sponsoring a number of school desks, made from recycled

plastic, to the CITYKIDZ Pre and Primary School.”

According to Janine Basson, PETCO Stakeholder and Relations Manager, PETCO’s mission is to grow the collection and recycling of PET plastic, after consumer use.

“PETCO is thrilled to support the ‘Joburg City Clean-Up’. We believe clean-ups have an important role to play in shifting South Africa away from a ‘take-make-dispose’ system to a circular economy by ensuring that valuable resources, such as PET plastic bottles, are diverted from landfill and collected for recycling. In the case of the ‘Joburg City Clean-Up’, PETCO sponsored bags and gloves.

Together with Extrupet we will also donate school desks made out of recycled plastic to a local

Photo Credit: Kyle Cestari school. Each desk, made from discarded bottle labels and caps, is approximately 65kg and seats two students.”

Says Chandru Wadhwani, Managing Director of Extrupet and PETCO Board Director, “We believe that these types of initiatives allow us to move off the side-lines and into the thick of consumer and civic responsibility.

Plastic touches us all, whether directly or indirectly, and it is imperative that we come together to be part of true sustainability when the opportunity (such as this clean-up) presents itself.”

The ‘Joburg City Clean-Up’ saw the clearing of 150 bags of waste from the streets of Johannesburg. The bags were collected by Waste Plan for sorting and processing, after which 10 school desks will be manufactured by PETCO.

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